This is a bit long but you'll get the point:
500H 100M 82V > crash
500H 100M 82V > crash
500H 100M 82V > crash
500H 100M 82V > crash
Emergency reboot.. come back in a minute or two.
500H 100M 82V > Connection closed by foreign host.
[1]+ Exit 52 bin/circle 2>foo
greerga@bacon:~/mud/wrk/circle30bpl11$
Wed Aug 20 00:41:36 :: Overflow Test!
Wed Aug 20 00:41:36 :: SYSERR: BUF: clear_buffer: Overflow in buffer from do_overflow:508.
Wed Aug 20 00:41:36 :: *** BUFFER LIST CLEARED AND REINITIALIZED! ***
Wed Aug 20 00:41:36 :: Test done!
Wed Aug 20 00:41:36 :: Using lib as data directory.
Wed Aug 20 00:41:36 :: Running game on port 4000.
[...etc...]
Wed Aug 20 00:41:50 :: Overflow Test!
Wed Aug 20 00:41:51 :: SYSERR: BUF: clear_buffer: Overflow in buffer from do_overflow:508.
Wed Aug 20 00:41:51 :: *** BUFFER LIST CLEARED AND REINITIALIZED! ***
Wed Aug 20 00:41:51 :: Test done!
Wed Aug 20 00:41:51 :: SYSERR: BUF: detach_buffer: No such buffer found at game_loop:632.
Wed Aug 20 00:41:53 :: Overflow Test!
Wed Aug 20 00:41:53 :: SYSERR: BUF: clear_buffer: Overflow in buffer from do_overflow:508.
Wed Aug 20 00:41:53 :: Test done!
Wed Aug 20 00:41:53 :: SYSERR: BUF: detach_buffer: No such buffer found at game_loop:632.
Wed Aug 20 00:41:53 :: BUF: Didn't find 12320 byte buffer! Making a new one.
Wed Aug 20 00:41:53 :: Closing all sockets.
Wed Aug 20 00:41:53 :: BUF: Didn't find 8192 byte buffer! Making a new one.
Wed Aug 20 00:41:53 :: Closing link to: Azalin.
Wed Aug 20 00:41:53 :: Rebooting.
Good idea. :)
There are now two options:
a) do a normal reboot (as per shutdown reboot command) immediately.
b) take up to MAX_OVERFLOW corruptions and then do (a).
You guys are good at ideas, I'm sure you can come up with some more. ;)
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